Food is Medicine - Using Diet to Heal Your Body and Brain
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Food is Medicine - Using Diet to Heal Your Body and Brain

The episode begins with an exploration of the concept of food as medicine. It covers functional foods, various diets, and keto strategies, followed by a discussion on oxalates, plant defenses, and the importance of enjoying your food. The conversation moves to the benefits of fiber, anti-inflammatory diets, and the role of medicinal mushrooms. Fasting is examined for its benefits, including spiritual and psychological aspects. The episode concludes with a Q&A session on inflammation, disease, and gut health, and ends with a preview of the next episode focusing on gut health. (0:00) Introduction to Food as Medicine (0:21) Functional Foods, Diets, and Keto Strategies (3:52) Oxalates, Plant Defense, and Enjoying Your Food (7:36) Fiber, Anti-inflammatory Diets, and Medicinal Mushrooms (15:30) Fasting: Benefits, Spiritual and Psychological Aspects (21:29) Conclusion and Q&A on Inflammation, Disease, and Gut Health (26:46) Next Episode Preview: Focus on Gut Health

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Let's go.

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Episode number 2.

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Is that, bro?

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Fuel.

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We're so heavy.

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We're gonna be back, bro.

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Let's, let's dig in episode 2.

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Right.

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So excited about this.

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Yeah.

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Buddies medicine, baby?

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It's been a year.

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It's alright.

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That

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is, bro.

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It is.

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Been it's been 1.

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Well, yeah, bro.

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1 1 year of doing this, we have 2.

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Oh, okay.

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That would be But, yeah, we're gonna dig in man food as medicine today.

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Something that I've kinda, like, based my my functional medicine practice on.

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You know?

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It's it's using food and supplements, obviously, which are derivatives of food.

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Right.

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Longinal foods as opposed to medicine, right?

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I think that's all activities.

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If if your body is in a state of, cardiac inflammation, right, it's not because or or

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high cholesterol, Yeah.

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It's not because your body's deficient in with the pork.

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Right?

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It's not deficient in a statin drug.

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You know, your body is something that's going on functionally that is is causing that you

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know, so how do you get to the root?

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Obviously, discover the root cause of it, and then how do we use natural names to reset that?

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Yeah.

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Right.

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And as anti limitation.

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For sure.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We kind of, to to lower that.

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But, yeah, that's what we're gonna get into today, man.

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Some of the some of the other things are, you know, what our functional foods, right, which I

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love, and and you're obviously a big proponent of that.

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That's gonna be kind of building a business around and then you know, some of the different

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diets.

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Like, what how do we use diets, medicinal.

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Right?

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People think a diet just, like, starving yourself and and being, like, uncomfortable and

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miserable and and working out, it's not in in a diet.

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It says, can be like a medicinal strategy or like a, a strategy to achieve some goal.

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Yeah.

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So when it's weight loss, muscle gains, brain brain function, whatever it might be.

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I think that's crucial that you said that too, like, towards a goal and knowing that's not,

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like, a long term sustainable thing.

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Like, keto, not a not a long term sustainable thing, right?

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It would

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never meant to be.

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But it, but

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it can be in the short term.

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For sure.

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So if that goal is to, you, you know, get your body in the state of ketosis for a period of a

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month, 2 months, 3 months.

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For or even a day.

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Right?

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I try to get my body in the process every day, but knowing that's the goal.

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Right?

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That's the plan, but and then moving past the past that plan, yeah, once you can once you,

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you do a lot more long term sustainable tours because whole foods and a well rounded

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grouping, where's your protein?

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Where's your carbohydrate?

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It's not eliminating them all together for the rest of your life.

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Right?

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That's not a healthy way to go about life.

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But then it's a cooperating sustainable, kind of, short term sprints that I think are good.

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It's healthy.

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Keto diets are good and healthy.

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Right?

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Atkins diets can be good and healthy, short period of time.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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Because, you know, again, like, what's the longevity play there?

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Right.

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Due to carbohydrates.

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Right?

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It could be zero car or low carb forever.

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It's gonna obviously have its own kind of downside.

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Right.

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Cards and fiber are gonna be able to go back to you a little bit.

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So, yeah, man, I think, also, like, the cardboard diet, you haven't done it?

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I actually haven't.

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No.

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Like, I did it, and it

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it actually it works well, man.

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But, again, it's it's not a a lifestyle.

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In my opinion, right, I believe I have opinions on this and people think what they want.

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In my opinion, it's It's an intervention that you can use to lower information, right, to get

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away from those, some of those reactions that come from, like, the heavy oxalates in certain

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certain vegetables, improved, and stuff like that.

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As well as for autoimmune disease, it works like acid.

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For, you know, reversing that and and help people to, like, re, respond, to the way their

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body's attacking itself, right, especially with process piece.

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Kinda like we talked about last episode.

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Yeah, man, when I That's

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to cut you off, but just to explain a little bit more.

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Oxylate.

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So oxylates are a plant's defense mechanism, right, that basically when you eat them, it and

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you'll notice this when you eat sometimes bananas, sometimes even spinach where you'll

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have, like, tingling in your mouth a little bit.

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That's essentially the plain defense mechanism showing like, hey, don't eat.

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Yeah.

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Don't eat things.

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I don't wanna be eaten.

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Yeah.

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I don't wanna be eaten.

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But at the reality is it's so good for you.

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It's but that that's at the detriment of somebody being, like, completely vegan or

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vegetarian

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Right.

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That, like, their oxalate levels are freaking through the roof because they're going there's

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not a blend of, you know, blood world.

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So it's not bad to eat things and oxalates.

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Yeah.

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But when you're at when you're getting into the point.

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So I didn't mean to cut you off.

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I just wanted to explain that for the viewership.

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Go over here for me.

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Yeah.

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Conversation.

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Yeah.

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And, I mean, the the vegan diet's a big ticket.

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Right?

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Right.

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That was touted as super healthy for so long, and but look at most people who are vegan, are

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usually pretty good.

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They're, like, I don't kinda gotta choose because they're just, you know, it's so much

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heavy fibers and eating eating raw vegetables, like, kind of sucks, right?

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Like, it's, like, so hard for your your guts are processing, I guess, that may mean you

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gotta be steaming those vegetables or or at least cooking them or making them so that

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they're they're that, that tough, like, XO smells and part of that vegetable is broken

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down, right, or anybody's gotta break that down You don't really have the enzymes to that.

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You know?

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And, too,

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you know, no good thing.

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Not no judgement.

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There, but, you're

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not batching anyone.

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But at the end of the day, it's like, food, a portion of food is meant for dopamine too.

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Like, you're supposed to joy food.

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I would say at least one time a day, for sure.

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And that is, like, therapeutic in nature, right?

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There should be, like, an element of gratitude towards food.

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It's where you sit down you actually chew it, taste it.

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You know, we do that for dinner where phones aside, families sit down, eating dinner,

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talking to one another, because, food really opens up as well.

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I think there's like a spirit element in that too, is that food actually speaks, for people.

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Yeah.

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And so and really quality and good food, but the medicine of food fills up your dopamine

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triggers.

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Right?

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So, like, you need to have at least one of those where you're, like, chewing on a piece of

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steak.

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Pretty good.

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Right?

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Tune on some, like, hot vegetables that are really cooked really well.

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Yeah.

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You know, that's part of dopamine where you're just enjoying the process of eating food and

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really, like, chewing those and letting those to address.

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So yeah.

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And I think that is a Right?

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Like, having food that's healthy, but enjoy it.

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Yeah.

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Which, like, just because it's healthy, doesn't mean it's it tastes like that.

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Yeah.

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We do have probably like spices.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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You can put spices on vegetables and, like, say, obviously, enhance the flavor profile.

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It can't be the way that your body's gonna, for sure, absorb it.

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As well as spices and herbs are basing the basis of, like, Chinese medicine.

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Right?

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That has been medicine forever, much longer than you know, the the conventional drugs that

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are either distressing.

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That's kind of messing around forever.

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Ever.

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So that's Mine's made much

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That's right, man.

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That's the cases of it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You're not too big, you know.

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It's my stick.

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It's like, you know, fiber.

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Yeah.

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Doctor Lane was talking about.

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I was listening to him the other day.

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I'm actually going to a conference.

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You should come with me, actually.

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I'm going to a conference here, a couple weeks, to hear him speak.

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And he's just he man, he he's like, what I love about him scientist, right?

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It really, really dives into the science.

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Like, what is the evolution?

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And for us, it's like food is medicine, but food that serves as an anti inflammatory

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medicine.

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Right.

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And because that's the main thing.

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It's like if you're if you're eating stuff that's gonna be inflammatory to the body, then

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it's not gonna be medicine.

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It's it's gonna be, you know, degrading to the body.

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There's not really a whole lot of longevity in that.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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And so then he talks about, that really the key to food as medicine is that level of fiber,

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getting fiber.

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Like fiber is the really key ingredient behind.

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If you can get, yeah, worth 30, 60 grams of fiber in your diet in a day, you know, that

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serves as a solid anti inflammatory.

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And that's where Chinese medicine, and that's where lion's name.

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Like, you don't see too many, like, barrier road ton.

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Chinese people are short too, which, like, yeah,

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they have easier to have a high degree.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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Way easier than that.

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But at the same time,

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their VC rates are less than not.

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Right?

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And when the obesity rates started getting higher, in in countries like China and Japan

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because when fast food, like, changed from this country started launching.

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Going over there, right?

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Figure that.

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Bried foods, everything that's, you know, incorporated into that.

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But That

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that's why we so heavily invested into specifically like mushrooms, like understanding

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mushrooms, in a higher scale, but, like, then lions may end up Chinese medicine.

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Like, they've been using that forever, like, for a long time.

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And that is then what's cool about mushrooms specifically being utilized as medicine is that

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mushrooms actually go after the environment, which a lot of, a lot a lot of, like, fruits

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and vegetables do, but mushrooms absorb the environment at which they're in, right, And so

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they retain all the nutrients, everything.

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So if there's also bad stuff going around, like, it'll absorb that too.

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Whatever's in that soil, the mushrooms are growing.

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And then there's, like, all these networks

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that are formed throughout the Venice bug.

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It's sponge.

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It's a 100% like this.

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It's a growing sponge.

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Yeah.

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So but if you can get solid mushrooms, which, like, here's a promo that's, you know,

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nutritious, but nutraces in there.

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But, like, is that is is the, is the getting a mushroom, right, where it had protected

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environment?

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Where I will.

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You know what?

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I will.

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We oesinate the water.

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It's a great problem.

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We oesinate the water.

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We have a controlled environment.

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We have spores.

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So we take the spores actually California, we'll bring him over.

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We have a mycologist out of Jacksonville State University that, that we then expand our

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scores, that we bring him into our control Chilled farm.

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It was an ate the water.

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And so then we know what environment these things are, like, growing, pulling control

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nutrients.

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It's all controlled.

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And so it's got a high, high level of nutrients and and micro nutrients that are coming fight

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over nutrients that are what, then gonna be

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food for the body of what we're talking about today.

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Like, how

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are we utilizing food as medicine?

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And all this is you know, somewhat supplementary at the end of the day, because

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you can put it in your coffee.

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But, like, what are you doing Like, what is that aided fuel that you're putting in and

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where food is, you're serving as that anti inflammatory Correct.

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Where you're getting proper macro micros that are, like, that are gonna be anti inflammatory

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that allow you to thrive.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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And that's that's what it's about.

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Like, your human experience on earth should thrive, getting to your root causes of maybe

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pain.

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But if you don't have pain, like, what is that?

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Paging process look like for you because food is gonna be the narrative.

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Yeah.

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And so it's like, yeah, like, you touched on me and using it as medicine, but if if you're not

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in pain, you don't have chronic diseases that you're, a healthy person, right, with, you

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know, in this country, that would be beyond healthy compared to me, right, like, to the the

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average person isn't playing over the way walking around.

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And, essentially, what what what beam over weight does, right, out of those tissues,

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talked about it.

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Yeah.

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First episode or or last one, is, is inflammatory by nature.

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Right?

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Very inflammatory tissue in your body.

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Yeah.

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So, basically, when you are overweight, you are walking around and your body is taking this as

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3.

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Right?

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Inflammation is the same whether you cut your leg, whether you get punched in the face, or

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you have hard and hard information.

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It's the same things that are going on your body by side of doing it.

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Right?

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So it's gonna send

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to good guys, the the healing factors to that area.

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You have chronic inflammation from too much a tissue, your body's just walking around in

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flames and in pain.

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And so essentially, man, like, it's kinda sad.

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Like, if you're if you're morbidly obese, it's like you're you're just your body isn't paying

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all day long.

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Right?

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So that that kinda gets back to what you're talking about by quality of like, how do you

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start to chip away at that?

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And so these interventions, like you said, man, the mushrooms are are can be used short term as

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like a as a medicinal protocol, but they can also have a place long term in your diet.

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Right?

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It doesn't mean that they can every single day.

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A couple times a week or, you know, either needed, right, and I think you touched on

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information, right, that that we're that's kinda what we're talking about, but I think one

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diet that can be a longevity diet Yeah.

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The anti medical diet Yeah.

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Or the the the deflaying diet.

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Anything that's gonna lower nature of the body will just be beneficial for lumpy.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Fido nutrients.

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Like, getting your Fido nutrients, that's things were in, obviously, antioxidant levers,

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and

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avoiding the process, avoiding the refined sugars, the carbs, and all that.

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I mean, that's been that that for me, it's

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been crazy, like, a huge huge huge difference of,

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like, not even nearly, like, looking much sugar is going to be about it.

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Yeah.

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And then specifically, I looked at, like, in added sugars.

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Right?

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That's the big thing for me, but,

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as far as, like, what's being added to naturally true occurring sugars.

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Right?

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Like, the those added layers of, like,

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sugars, what are you getting in your body, man?

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Complete joints everything.

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Yeah.

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My, I mean, my body is, like, I'm in tune with my body.

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Yeah.

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It's pretty wild to even think about it.

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And most people don't even realize they're walking around with, like, a brain with brain

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fog all day because they gotta have, like, operating at this self optimal place.

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Like, oh, my joints just after I hear it all the time.

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It's just it's just in the morning.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Man, I I notice that.

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Like, if I have, like, I mean, I'll go out or something and have, a desert or something like

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that, but my joints hurt the next day.

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I'm only thirty one.

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It's like, I feel it, and it's because I'm not used that.

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I'm normally eating pretty clean to the point that my body doesn't have that.

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So I can tell right away.

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Yeah.

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Well, where most people are at, you know, unfortunately, is that that's their normal.

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Yeah.

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So they they they're they're pain sensors or they're pain tall it starts to rise.

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And so they're not they're starting to tune out that just constant pain and inflammation.

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Yeah.

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When you put someone like that on hands on a credit for a diet.

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After a month, they they are like, what is this?

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I feel amazing.

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Yeah.

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Like, I feel like I've never felt this way before.

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Even younger people, man, it's it's like the, right, or like, I can think now.

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You know, like, why is my brain working?

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Yeah.

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It's because it's not being clouded, and it's not being, Like, it's not being bombarded by

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all this this misinformation, toxicity, everything.

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Yeah, man.

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That's huge.

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The the actor Mark Island was talking about a few things too, in terms of, like, like, food

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being medicine, on a daily basis.

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And I know we're gonna tap into this, but, like, getting into the element of flow, how,

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like, lack of food actually can be medicine too.

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You know what I mean?

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Like, yeah.

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Like, an overabundance of food, which we, like, wanna just scarf our face were so much in the

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habit of, like, I just I need to feel satiated when, like, there's a beautiful thing you know,

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allowing yourself to feel hungry.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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You know what I mean?

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It's pretty wild to, like, even think about, but when I started being okay with I don't have

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to go in and just, like, smash my face every, like, 20 minutes of it, like, a snack or

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something, because I used to do all the time.

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Yeah.

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Because I created as a habit and cycle, a feedback group.

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They're just, like, just when I just got a little bit hungry, I need to take that hunger,

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hunger away.

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Yeah.

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I'm like,

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dude, I don't have to

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eat that much.

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Actually, a lack thereof, gives me actual more longevity.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And almost like your brain can be clear.

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Yeah.

00:16:36
I've been passing all morning, and that's fantastic.

00:16:38
My brain is like, operating.

00:16:39
Right?

00:16:40
A lot of time.

00:16:40
Yeah.

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But, yeah, because that's that's how I used to be, especially, like, being an athlete in

00:16:44
college.

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It was like, alright.

00:16:46
I know in 2 a half to 3 hours, gonna be hungry.

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So it's like, I was always, like, preplanning, like, where I was gonna get my next feet.

00:16:51
Yeah.

00:16:51
Right.

00:16:51
It's like,

00:16:52
I've just stacked my backpack and my gym bag with, like, bars and, yeah, serial.

00:16:57
Stuff to have for, like, when that hunger started.

00:17:00
I was like, oh god.

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I was like, panic, man.

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I was like, I'm gonna be hungry now.

00:17:03
That's okay.

00:17:04
That's okay.

00:17:05
I'm a little

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hungry right now.

00:17:06
Yeah.

00:17:06
Absolutely.

00:17:07
I agree too.

00:17:07
It's fine.

00:17:08
Right?

00:17:08
Like, and that's, you know, if we get into, like, the spiritual side of, like, that thing

00:17:12
and what you know, a lot of the, the ways it was used in, like, connecting, right, to the

00:17:17
divine.

00:17:17
So, I mean, you you give that back, man.

00:17:20
Like, you you feel a little longer, like, like, thank god for for providing me with food that I

00:17:25
can do on a regular basis.

00:17:26
Like, this hunger would be like my my way of, you know, giving it up Yeah.

00:17:32
I always need it to be bad and just feel it full.

00:17:35
You know?

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It's crazy.

00:17:37
I I did a quick, like, chatgbt thing.

00:17:42
And I was thinking about him, like, oh, nutritious could do, like, a challenge of,

00:17:48
like, you skip the meal.

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And then if you had to get through something or, like, break your fast, just, like, but

00:17:54
still push it out a little bit further that you could, you know, hit a nutritious pack, right,

00:17:59
and just get 80 calories in you real quick.

00:18:01
And it would extend that out, but you would for sure be able to skip a meal.

00:18:05
Right?

00:18:05
Yeah.

00:18:06
And, so I was like, how many calories would say every American did that.

00:18:11
And for, what's an average for me?

00:18:13
One day a month, I think

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it was.

00:18:14
So, no, the average day for

00:18:17
each American right now is almost 4000 calories, which is insane.

00:18:23
Like, that

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is a lot of calories.

00:18:23
Right?

00:18:24
So and, people don't realize this, but, like, a lot of your calories come from, like, four cups

00:18:31
of Starbucks coffee.

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You know what I mean?

00:18:33
Yep.

00:18:33
Like, you're getting 6, 700 calories from all those, like, sugar and a coffee.

00:18:37
Yeah.

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And so then you're eating for, like, eating.

00:18:40
You don't you don't think I'm not eating.

00:18:41
I'm drinking.

00:18:42
Yeah.

00:18:42
You're you're drinking your calories.

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Those don't those still stick on you.

00:18:47
And so it was 14 calories, that, like, if you did that, you would, you would you

00:18:54
would do that

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math.

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Did you do that math?

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I was

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like, yeah, there was no, the chat you would do.

00:18:58
Oh, okay.

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So I, like, broke it down.

00:19:01
I'm like, like, how like, if somebody gave up, we we would be giving up, like, 14 chile

00:19:06
chilean calories, I broke it down well, actually by Neil then too.

00:19:09
So if, like, somebody did, like, a 2000 calorie diet, it would have been, like, it would have

00:19:13
been, like, 1 meals saved.

00:19:16
You know, how many, like, you know, how many meals that is for, like, for people that maybe

00:19:21
potentially that I would like, dude, that's it.

00:19:23
Why all that as well?

00:19:24
If people took on fasting more and were just more alert with, like, lack of food is

00:19:30
potential medicine too.

00:19:31
Yeah.

00:19:31
Yeah.

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And I

00:19:32
know we're gonna we will dive into that in, like, future seasons as far as what fasting

00:19:37
looks like.

00:19:38
Yeah.

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But it's, absolutely food.

00:19:41
The narrative food becomes more medicine.

00:19:43
It becomes less of an anti inflammatory rates more dopamine, when you actually have a little

00:19:50
bit more lack thereof.

00:19:50
When you're going into that that

00:19:51
1 or 2 meals a day, and you, like, can be present with those meals.

00:19:59
Man, that's the way I feel like when true food is medicine, like, hopefully, true going into

00:20:04
that with the intention like, I'm eating.

00:20:06
How much more do you enjoy it?

00:20:07
Right?

00:20:08
So you don't have to go fast in the morning and you don't have, like, a nice big, like, hole or

00:20:11
whatever it might be.

00:20:12
It's a healthy, like, to help you lean products to you and then some good, you know,

00:20:16
carbohydrates, yeah, grains or something in, and you're like, it just tastes better.

00:20:20
So Yeah.

00:20:21
And you enjoy

00:20:22
it more.

00:20:23
Yeah.

00:20:23
It's, I I love it.

00:20:25
That that is truly, I feel like.

00:20:27
Not that is like that is food as medicine.

00:20:31
Like, if you had to, like, picture it, that the absolutely food is medicine like that.

00:20:36
Yeah.

00:20:36
And, you know, the the reason, like, most people aren't doing that is because it's not a

00:20:39
narrative of the business model that is, like, exactly spaces.

00:20:44
Right?

00:20:45
Well, he's talked about last week.

00:20:46
Yeah.

00:20:47
It's, like, 2 You have to have breakfast.

00:20:49
You have to wake up with this pop tart.

00:20:50
You have to wake up with the cereal.

00:20:52
It's the the breakfast and most important meal of the day.

00:20:55
That the way the marketing did a

00:20:57
100 hours.

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I think everyone thought the doctors were

00:20:58
saying that, no.

00:20:59
That was that was the marketing glitch.

00:21:01
Yeah.

00:21:02
But Yeah.

00:21:03
We can go I could grab a whole lot of that forever, man.

00:21:05
Yeah.

00:21:05
Like I said, a little conspiracy.

00:21:07
The, he I was thinking a Starbucks again.

00:21:10
Like, when you get a soy latte, but you put 4 dumps of, 4 dumps of, vanilla air, caramel

00:21:17
sugar.

00:21:18
It ain't helping you.

00:21:19
And that's liquid just being

00:21:20
straight deposited into your body.

00:21:22
Right?

00:21:22
And pancreas is like, I don't I'm not even in touch with it.

00:21:26
I don't have enough insulin for that.

00:21:27
That's right.

00:21:29
Oh, man.

00:21:30
So, here we go.

00:21:32
We're, I think that's a wrap, for food as medicine.

00:21:35
You got anything else?

00:21:36
You know what I mean?

00:21:37
I think it's, you know, obviously, for anybody listening, who's like, this is new to me or new

00:21:41
knowledge.

00:21:41
Yeah.

00:21:42
Find someone you trust or that that has knowledge in this space that you can work with.

00:21:45
Right?

00:21:46
Like, someone like myself as a functional medicine doctor or folks in nutrition or any

00:21:49
kind of, life life coaches, right, that have knowledge in that realm to be able to help you

00:21:54
kind of, enforce some of these things because most people are probably gonna be like, oh, let

00:21:58
me go buy out.

00:21:59
Go buy a bunch of stuff in there.

00:22:00
So buy a bunch of this stuff and start taking it.

00:22:02
Yeah.

00:22:02
Doesn't necessarily mean that's the right thing.

00:22:04
So yeah.

00:22:05
Yeah.

00:22:05
You know, do do some research do some reading.

00:22:07
We'll I think we should link some, resources too, yeah, into our into our notes.

00:22:11
We'll do that for sure that people can look up.

00:22:13
Yeah.

00:22:13
No doubt.

00:22:14
We'll, put those in there.

00:22:15
I think so doctor Lessey is my doctor, my functional.

00:22:18
I do everything proactively through him.

00:22:21
Something that I do as far as size, which, again, we're gonna build on to, but I wanna be

00:22:26
proactive in terms of, like, not reactive to injuries.

00:22:30
But, so I try to take care of my body about it straightened out, do those things.

00:22:34
So if you're in the Tampa Bay region and, you need a functional wellness doctor, you need to

00:22:39
go to along this.

00:22:41
I'll take care of you, like he does me.

00:22:44
He goes above and beyond.

00:22:45
So, that's what we got for the day.

00:22:47
Appreciate it, man.

00:22:48
And, Blake, I think we got a couple to the audience, what what are these questions?

00:22:52
Oh, man.

00:22:52
Yeah.

00:22:52
I mean, that's the That's a big one.

00:22:59
That's a

00:23:00
A lot.

00:23:00
Right.

00:23:00
Like, if you wanna get into it, that, right, like, essentially, it is you die.

00:23:05
Right?

00:23:05
Like, if you're trying to get everything, forever, you can't you can't support that.

00:23:08
Whenever ever.

00:23:09
Right?

00:23:09
So it's gonna look like the

00:23:12
first, like, pain, you know, brain fog,

00:23:13
then it becomes chronic disease.

00:23:18
Think of your body like a like a bucket, you know, and every everything that comes into it

00:23:23
that is, is stressful and is feeling that it.

00:23:27
Right?

00:23:27
And eventually that bucket overflows, that's just insane.

00:23:30
Right?

00:23:31
So, like, yeah, you can get away with Sugar and the kids.

00:23:33
You can get away to to a point that that bucket gets to the top and then your body becomes you

00:23:39
become that medic, right, where you become insulin resistant because there's just a

00:23:42
threshold that our body's tolerate, which, by

00:23:46
the way, if somebody is already there, that's reversible if you know the root cause.

00:23:49
Yeah.

00:23:50
That's right.

00:23:50
Yeah.

00:23:51
Yeah.

00:23:51
All that stuff is good.

00:23:52
Right?

00:23:53
Yeah.

00:23:53
Yeah.

00:23:53
Yeah.

00:23:53
I mean That's what's cool about, like, quality and understanding the anti inflammatories.

00:23:57
When you get to that point, doctors, some doctors will tell you, when gonna put you on

00:24:01
more drugs.

00:24:02
No.

00:24:02
There there's a way out of that.

00:24:03
Right?

00:24:04
You can get to the root cause.

00:24:05
That's right.

00:24:05
Yep.

00:24:06
Yep.

00:24:06
So, but, yeah, again, yeah, disease that's where disease comes from.

00:24:10
So, like, the more inflammatories you have in the body, you're gonna get disease.

00:24:13
Disease eventually leads to death.

00:24:15
So What's the point of life, though, if you can't experience it through, your thriving

00:24:21
mechanisms?

00:24:22
And so focusing on the anti inflammatory where you are able to thrive Yeah.

00:24:26
That's all these pieces built in, but food is that is that early fundamental base, to create

00:24:34
to create longevity.

00:24:35
And, you know, the top 4 or 5 killers in this country are all lifestyle preventable diseases,

00:24:40
heart disease, cancer, diabetes, use, and autoimmune.

00:24:45
Right?

00:24:45
Those those things, like and I don't know if that's the order, but probably not the order,

00:24:49
but who cares.

00:24:50
Those things are all related to what we put to our body.

00:24:53
Yeah.

00:24:54
We have our life, right, stretch levels, all that stuff.

00:24:56
So, yeah, everything can be reversed, man.

00:24:58
Yeah.

00:24:58
Absolutely.

00:25:00
Good question.

00:25:09
Yeah.

00:25:09
I mean, that's a great question.

00:25:11
I like that because it's related to our product.

00:25:14
It's an anti inflammatory.

00:25:15
So what we do is we focus on the gut.

00:25:17
The first thing that we look at anything is that, you know, what is, what is the

00:25:22
performance of your gut?

00:25:23
Because that's gonna show the narrative and the longevity of everything else in in your body.

00:25:27
You gotta look at your gut first.

00:25:29
And so, fiber is a really big thing.

00:25:32
And then you have some micronutrients that you're gonna be incorporating into that.

00:25:36
But as we explained in lion's name, there's a vagus nerve that is directly correlated from

00:25:42
your gut to your brain.

00:25:43
So it's that.

00:25:44
Alright.

00:25:44
And we'll talk about that because I think we have some that, and we'll throw these in

00:25:48
shownings, but we'll we'll we'll drag down to that a little bit further.

00:25:51
But the big piece in, what I love about lines made it as that it has that gut brain access

00:25:58
point, that creates an anti inflammatory for the brain that gives you more neurology focus.

00:26:05
And the reason why you need an anti inflammatory for the brain and really have,

00:26:09
like, a there's a level of immunity built into that.

00:26:13
Is that, mindset is a crucial, crucial, crucial, filtering.

00:26:16
And if you aren't making decisions properly and you don't have that direct, you know, gut brain

00:26:22
access point, that is clear that you're probably gonna be making sloppy decisions.

00:26:25
Very reactive.

00:26:25
Very reactive, like, Right?

00:26:32
And so, that's what I love about Lions Maine is kind of behind the nutritious brand.

00:26:36
It definitely is behind the nutritious brand, is like, what decisions are you making to

00:26:41
create and while you make your human experience live.

00:26:44
Yeah.

00:26:45
And so that's why

00:26:46
we just love the lines.

00:26:47
That's awesome.

00:26:50
Yeah.

00:26:50
I don't have anything

00:26:51
to add to that.

00:26:52
So yeah.

00:26:53
My man.

00:26:54
I'm so different too in the books.

00:26:56
Thank you, Blake, for those questions that whoever drag in from the audience there.

00:27:00
Yeah.

00:27:00
And just real quick, we'll be back.

00:27:01
Episode 3, we're gonna we're, I think, perfect segways.

00:27:05
We're gonna dig into gut man.

00:27:07
Good health.

00:27:07
We're talking about my leaky gut, which is something that I work a lot with in my clinic.

00:27:10
And, the gut brain connect is is another point on that.

00:27:15
So So we'll take that.

00:27:16
I'm assuming.

00:27:16
Yeah.

00:27:16
I really think we're even with those.

00:27:18
So that's a rat.

00:27:20
Episode them too.

00:27:21
Peace, man.

00:27:22
We'll feel full field, baby.